Its also a day of heavy rains and flooding in New York City.
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Ubers were also extensively delayed and surge-priced.
Clockwise from left) Dennis Lim, ‘Ferrari,’ ‘Foe’ and ‘May December’Getty/Eros Hoagland/Amazon Studios/Netflix
The NationalWeatherService had posted a flash flood warning for the area.
When the alerts kept chiming, Haynes and producer Christine Vachon exchanged smiling looks of What next?
It felt like we were spoiled for choices.
The industry is very unsettled right now.
But I think the art form is doing fine.
Lim says Covid may have helped sparked the fests burst of popularity by getting young people more involved.
It felt like a lot of younger people …
I remember filmmakers, remarking on that to us that year.
And that translate to whos in the audience.
I noticed a lot of film students came that year.
The Curseis likely to skew young given the Safdie fan base.
But television is something that people consume in a very different way from movies.
The fest also dispensed as soon as it could with a virtual edition.
We believe in the big-screen experience.
We believe in the communal experience, Lim said.
NYFF launched in 1963 and in many ways hasnt changed: no competition, no prizes, no market.
No call for submissions either, but Lim and his team watched about 1,000 features.
The fests goal is a meaningful summary of the year in cinema, Lim said.
But they are also of different generations.
They make very different films.
NYFF is notably unspooling as Hollywood labor relations thaw.
TheWGA and AMPTP have settled, ending a nearly five-month strike (pending member approval).
Most actors have not promoted their films at the recent crop of fall festivals andSAG-AFTRAis still on strike.
Buttalks are scheduledfor Monday and theres a general expectation they wont drag on too long.
The word from NYFF: all talent welcome if the strike ends before the festival does.
Dade Hayes contributed to this report.
